This is a piece about the development of the script Dr. Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. SPOILERS SORT OF AHEAD

In 1964 Columbia Pictures nervously released Dr. Strangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (1964)[1F], Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War comedy in which a US General snaps and sends nuclear bombers to Russia, leaving the President and his aides to try to solve the situation before the bombers destroy their targets and commence World War Three.